Show international I 1 1 I conj i ht 1 in italy it is is to be hoped that the int international erna ti 10 nal copyright which has just been pro claimed as between italy and the united states between president harrison and king humbert hambert may not throw the plaster cast industry on both sides the atlantic into economical spasms but the current year has developed and that the coming year promises still further to devel develop in an alin almost 0 st alarming fecundity among apih a the sculptors culat ors of italy in the way of sketches sketch eg molds and casts intended to disfigure and present everything which did or did not happen as well as everything which on ought and which ought n not 0 t to have happened d to the discoverer 0 of f the new world hardly three weeks ago for example signor signer cesare orsini who bears a name cherished by italian patriots opened in the via bagio at rome a columbian 7 exposition of models in clay and plaster intended to represent all the bosc possible ible and ul ait impossible ible phases of the career of columbus b no artist appears to have dealt with columbus in his cradle or with columbus at the marriage altar but signor signer Mac aghani contributes an alarming anage of an angel whisking off to heaven the soul of the dying navigator and signor signer guilianetti Guil ianotti an astonished image of columbus catching his first glimpse of the new world nine at least of these works of art are intended as our roman correspondent informed us to decorate the capitol at washington it is to be hoped no time will be lost by the artistic and zest aesthetic hetio members bembe rs of the senate and the house in preparing to receive this worshipful emigration with the whole force if necessary of marines and artillery at the disposal of the federal government new york sun |